Fri May 21, 2021 2:50 pm
#1848390
AndyR wrote:It has been said above, but better to learn to fly than learn to solo an aircraft in minimum time.
Also said above....STOP BEATING YOURSELF UP!!
It's odd isn't it, such a consistent theme around here. I was the same.
My dad had flown Tiger Moths at school, and Harvards at Cambridge. He got his PPL before he could drive a car. He worked for British Aerospace, as it became, his whole career.
When I started learning to fly at 29, it was the fulfillment of a lifetime dream (I had sat in a Harrier cockpit as a small child), and there was unfinished business for me, as for reasons I won't go into now, I had withdrawn an application to join the UAS while at uni.
So in retrospect it's perhaps not surprising that I put myself under a lot of pressure. But it didn't help!
Becoming a pilot, with its intensity, its difficulties, its setbacks, and its joys, can become a defining thing in a person's life. It certainly has in mine, and I think that brings its pressures.
So it's no surprise that many people end up in a similar place - for whatever reason; everyone has their story. We all have to learn the "put it behind you and move on" mindset in our own way.
Not that I've really learned that lesson even to this day. I'm better than I was, but still not great. Thank god I don't make any mistakes any more...